A live two-toed sloth is coming to Richmond’s Science Museum

A two-toed sloth is coming to the Science Museum of Virginia.

Why it matters: You won’t get to hold it, but you can get up close and personal with the famously slow creature starting next Saturday.

Driving the news: The sloth is part of a touring exhibition called “Survival of the Slowest that will be in town all summer.

  • It’s an educational showcase from Little Ray’s Exhibitions about how animals usually seen as lazy or sluggish actually use those traits to stay alive.
  • The exhibition will briefly turn the Science Museum into a mini zoo filled with live creatures like a hedgehog, ball python, bearded dragon, box turtle and a Brazilian black tarantula.
  • Visitors can even interact with some of them.

Yes, but: The sloth will stay in its enclosure, museum spokesperson Miles McQuiggan tells Axios…

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